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November 26, 2006
Bloomberg Administration Is Developing Land Use Plan to Accommodate Future Populations
New York Times quotes Bloomberg as crowning Dan Doctoroff the new Robert Moses. Ratner is going to be so jealous...
City officials declined to publicly elaborate on their proposals in advance of the advisory board’s announcement. But some of its goals were foreshadowed by two of the largest rezoning revisions in city history — of the Brooklyn waterfront in Greenpoint and Williamsburg and the Far West Side of Manhattan — both driven by Mr. Doctoroff.The two major zoning changes, coupled with other development proposals, including the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, were aimed at revitalizing underutilized land for economic development and expanding the city’s property tax base. The zoning changes were accomplished, in part, by tying them to the city’s timetable to apply for the 2012 Olympic Games.
The city lost its Olympic bid, which included the ill-fated proposal for combining a stadium for the Olympics and the Jets with an expanded convention center on the West Side. But Mr. Doctoroff maintains that he also viewed the Olympics as a vehicle to drive the sort of longer-range planning in which local governments rarely have the resources, or the vision, to indulge.
Posted by amy at November 26, 2006 12:08 PM